Got it, so wait for it in humble bundle or buy it once it sinks to $5.

the thing while yes, inflation will make things more expensive, the more expensive things become the less folks will just spend on random entertainment. they will have to use their money more deliberately and frugally.

and the problem with games are that there are many free and cheaper alternatives. if you wanna game you can just spend less and still game and have fun.

if you wanna go to the cinema it pretty much costs what it costs so you might go less often or buy less popcorn but you won’t skip one movie because it’s more expensive than another.

you can just skip full price AAA games. buy them on sales, play games you already have, play free to play games, emulate retro games, play indie games.

B1 was fun and interesting, B2 was brilliant, BTPS was fun, but slightly less so than B2, B3 was just annoying cringe.

And yeah, I played through all the games to completion including the DLCs.

BL3 was generic and forgettable. BL4 anything more than 40$ is easily forgettable. Don't these guys know most gamers have backlogs at this point? No one has the money for this shit.

Aaaaaand I'll wait for a sale. If I consider it in the first place. Gaming is so saturated, all these days 1 buyers are fucking us over.

To these orgs, I say, bro - have you seen my backlog?

Borderlands 3 was barely worth $60 and I still waited for it to go on sale.

c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

the more of us just wait a couple months, the cheaper it'll get and the sooner too

:p

I don't know if I will buy this game then.

I'll enjoy buying it in 5 years during a Steam sale.

There's an overabundance of games out there. I can wait.

But is it any good? Just because the budget is higher doesn't mean it's good. I didn't like the story and writing of 3 but the rest of the game I enjoyed. I'm kinda expecting the same, hopefully. Every AAA release somehow gets worse every year tho

Nintendo really is the Apple of gaming.

Sure, it might be $80,why not? Also I might skip it. Or wait for sensible sale like $5 in a bundle. Backlog keeps expanding anyway and I doubt this will be even worth half the rrlease asking price...

"Initial sales fall short of predictions"

At this point i appreciate the heads up from all the studios. Makes not buying the games much easier if you don't even get on the hype train.

Is anyone really excited for borderlands anymore? Feel like 2 of the last 3 were pretty mid.

So $89.99 then.

Special edition with a 6" plastic Temu tat figurine and 1000 FREE BorderBucks will be $249.99.

I feel like we keep seeing this headline. "AAA studio says current prices can't support current budgets"

I almost never buy games at $60. I buy everything on sale, and there are constantly sales and way more games than I can play. They can charge whatever they want, I personally will be paying less.

Will the market bear $80 games? Maybe. I feel like a better strategy would be to reign in scope and budget and sell games at prices most people can afford. But who knows?

I’d be willing to pay that. But honestly, I’ll probably wait until it’s on sale.

I've been buying $80 for years thanks to being Canadian!

I once paid $140 (just pre-pandemic inflation) for a meal with two drinks at a fancy restaurant for a friend's bachelor party. It was delicious. At the same time, I realized that no one meal, no matter how good, was worth that price. I don't know what the threshold is for how much I'll pay for a single video game, but $80 is more palatable to me when the game asking for it isn't Mario Kart.